Improvement in salt-holders



GEORGE B. FOWLE.

Improvement in Sal Holders.

950,124,261; Patented March5,l872.

GEORGE B. EOWLE, OF EAST CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN SALT-HOLDERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 124,261, dated March 5,1872.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE B. FowLE, of-

East Cambridge, in the county of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts,have invented an Improved Salt and Knife Best; a-nd I do hereby declarethat the following, taken in connection with the drawing whichaccompanies and forms part of this specication, is a description oimyinvention sutcient to enablethose skilled in the art to practice it.-

My invention relates particularly to the construction of personal saltsor salt-hol ders for table use, and to be generally made of glasspressed or molded, or blown and pressed. In my construction of such asalt or holder, I make the main or bowl part with one or more rests orprojections, which form knife-rests; and my invention consists in a bowlor holder, having extending laterally from it one or more rests integraltherewith.

The drawing represents a salt or holder embodying the invention.

Ashows the salt in plan. B is an end View of it; G, a perspective view.

v a denotes the main or center part, recessed or made dishing at top, toform the bowl-space a line across the blade of the knife.

for holding salt or other powder or liquid. b c denote two rest-pieces,eXtendin g from opposite sides of the center piece, as seen in thedrawing, each piece b c forming an integral part of the piece a, andbeing preferably made with an angular edge, d, so as to secure Contactof the rest with the knife supported thereupon only at Aknifeblade maybe supported upon the rest, as seen at O.'

The salt or holder, with its rest or rests, is preferably made oi'glass, but may he formed of metal, and the whole may be more or lessornamented.

The construct-ion is a very useful one, as it always furnishes, with thesalt, means for supporting a soiled knife-blade above and out of contactwith the table-cloth.

A salt or holder, having one or more rests integra-l with it andextending laterally from it, substantially as shown and described.

' GEO. B. FOWLE. YVitnesses.:

FRANCrs GoULD,

S. B. KIDDER.

